Benjamin Creme's Claims Regarding Maitreya
Further background information: Alice Bailey#Teachings regarding Maitreya
Creme is a follower of Alice A. Bailey who claimed, beginning in 1959, to have been contacted telepathically by one of the Masters (he was told not reveal which one, but Creme's Master is usually assumed to be one of the two unnamed "English Masters" mentioned by Alice A. Bailey) and prepared for his mission, which Creme said he was told was to receive messages from Maitreya. Beginning in 1975 (the same year the crop circles began to appear), Creme says he started to actually telepathically channel Maitreya. Creme stated that Maitreya telepathically communicated to him that he had decided to return to Earth earlier than the post-2025 date given by Alice A. Bailey. On 6 September 1977, Creme said that he began receiving messages from Maitreya regarding the process of his forthcoming emergence. These revelations are compiled in the book Messages from Maitreya. According to Creme, Maitreya informed him that he materialized a physical body for himself in early 1977 in the Himalayas and then on Friday, 8 July 1977 he booked an airplane flight from Pakistan to London, just as had been prophesied in 1946 by Alice A. Bailey. When Maitreya landed in London, this was according to Creme the esoteric Second Coming of Christ (since Maitreya had not yet revealed himself to the world). Creme said that Maitreya then took up residence in secret in the Brick Lane neighborhood of that city. According to Creme, Maitreya does not need to eat because he is capable of living off prana (thus he is a breatharian); however, he can eat if offered food. Maitreya has no navel and is 6 feet 3 inches tall. In an interview with Bill Mayhar Creme stated that he can command Maitreya to speak through him, and also that an image of Maitreya's hand appeared on a mirror in a bathroom in Barcelona.
Creme put advertisements in many of the world’s major newspapers in early 1982 stating that the Second Coming would occur on Monday, 21 June 1982 (summer solstice in the northern hemisphere), at which time Christ (Maitreya) would announce his Second Coming on worldwide television. When this failed to occur, Crème’s organization regrouped as Share International to prepare for the near-future Emergence of Maitreya, when, it is believed, the Day of Declaration to inaugurate the Age of Aquarius will occur.
Creme asserts that the energies of the Anti-Christ worked through Adolf Hitler and his defeat in World War II made possible the return of Maitreya. According to Creme, the Age of Aquarius will be the "Age in which the love nature of God, revealed by Christ in Jesus, becomes manifest on a world scale".
Creme states that Maitreya manifests in visions to various people—an average of 26 different people per day. Maitreya, claims Creme, miraculously appears physically before gatherings of between a few dozen and several hundred people of various religious groups an average of about three times a month. Sometimes when Benjamin Creme is lecturing, he says he allows Maitreya to briefly overshadow him, and when this happens, some of Creme's followers report seeing Creme surrounded by a golden aura.
Maitreya's main mission during the Age of Aquarius according to Creme will be to promulgate the Principle of Sharing, such that the technologically advanced nations share their wealth with the poorer nations so that everyone will have adequate sustenance. It is believed by the followers of Creme that Maitreya has vast superhuman powers and also that he is in regular telepathic contact with the space brothers in their flying saucers; it has been asserted by Benjamin Crème that Maitreya is physically invulnerable and is capable of teleporting anywhere in the solar system. Creme's followers believe that Maitreya, in collusion with the flying saucers of the space brothers, are the cause of the crop circles (the modern manifestation of which began to appear in 1975, the year that Creme claims that Maitreya began to telepathically contact him); more crop circles appear in England than any other country, it is asserted, because Maitreya spends a large percentage of his time in London.
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